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Happiness is lost by criticizing it sorrow by accepting it.

Ambrose Bierce

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
Journalist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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LOGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge.
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Male, A member of the unconsidered or negligible gender. The male of the human race is commonly known to the female as Mere Man. The Genus has two varieties: good providers and bad providers.
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R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of requiescat in pace, attesting to indolent goodwill to the dead. According to the learned Dr. Drigge, however, the letters originally meant nothing more than reductus in pulvis.
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Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is, instead of as it should be.
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MACE, n. A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, indicates its original purpose and use in dissuading from dissent.
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PRE-EXISTENCE, n. An unnoted factor in creation.
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INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.
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ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear.
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KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.
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RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day.
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Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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LOSS, n. Privation of that which we had, or had not. Thus, in the latter sense, it is said of a defeated candidate that he lost his election.
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CALUMNUS, n. A graduate of the School for Scandal.
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UNITARIAN, n. One who denies the divinity of a Trinitarian.
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ELECTOR, n. One who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man of another man's choice.
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The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.
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Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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POLICE, n. An armed force for protection and participation.
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